I just went back and watched the first few minutes of the show, with Jack getting out of bed wrapped in a towel.
No appendectomy scar.
BAM!
So then it’s a spoiler. Thanks. :rolleyes:
Now that I think of it, wasn’t Jack considerably less hairy than he usually is?
Well, it’s been brought up in (at least) one of these threads in the past (sorry, not going to dig through all the Lost threads to find it), so I think it’s safe to assume people following these every week would already have known this bit of info.
That also occurred to me during that scene.
I think Charlotte had to go along mainly to help carry supplies. It was a pretty long list of stuff.
And keep showing Kate in underwear! Less teeth, more underwear. Actually, less underwear! 
That doesn’t change the fact that it comes from an interview with the producers (which I, and many others, purposely don’t read) and that it’s a spoiler for future episodes.
When we first met him, he found the stash hidden in the kid’s room. That told us he had some powers.
[mod hat on]
That’s a good point. If someone had reported the post instead of complaining about it in the thread, a mod could have edited the post and posted a quick note about being careful to spoiler comments like that. Now that we have a discussion about whether its a spoiler or not. . . not so much. Let me do what I can here:
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**John Mace ** goes to a lot of trouble to set up these threads and make the spoiler rules clear. Please try to honor them, even if the bit you are going to mention is well-known among the cognoscenti.
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The thing to do about an unspoilered spoiler is to alert a moderator.
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Sorry, I post from work during the day and I got called away after I complained about and forgot to report it as well.
Also regarding middleman’s comments about the “smoke” theory … I also found this to be one of the more intriguing bits in the episode, but I have a technical observation to share. Yeah, I know technical goofs are almost necessarily overlooked in film and TV because it’s nigh impossible to ensure all technical details are accurate, but I have something of a background in electrical contracting and based on experience, it’s fairly reasonable to assume that a place as swanky and posh as the the office building where Jack had his practice would most certainly not have battery-operated detectors. Modern fire systems are all hard-wired into an independently-powered loop that home runs back to a system panel, both for the sake of making an alarm incidence simple to locate within the building, as well as ensuring that all those devices never need batteries. My thinking is there was no beep and this entity was just screwing with Jack’s head. I think you’ll find that there’s something of an auditory motif with most appearances of this thing, whether it’s chirps in the jungle or beeps in a professional building. Call it over-analyzing if you like, but I think it’s a sound theory, pun intended. 
Another little tidbit aimed at the online community.
Also, this episode ended the previous (presumed) timeline progression of flash forwards moving from the future towards the present, as this episode’s flash forward was further in the future than the previous one with Jack and Kate (the one with the trial).
I think that sequence was broken in the previous one as well. Ben is in Tunisia in October of 2005. But we had already seen Sun’s baby being born, which would probably have been around June of 2005. (It’s the end of December, 2004 in “real” time for the Losties.)
Something that occurred to me about the timing of the flash-forwards. Several sites are pegging the date of this flash-forward at October of 2007, based on the paper Jack is reading. This flash-forward obviously occurred before the flash-forward at the end of last season (where Jack and Kate meet at the airport).
So, when that episode aired, it was not only taking place in the future of the “real” timeline of the show, it was taking place in the future of the viewers as well. Yes, Lost has run an episode set in the future!
BAM!
Boooo me!
Anyway…I don’t quite get the “add that to the list” muttering, or nod, or whatever. Weren’t Daniel and Charlotte doing their thing in the humongous power station just a few episodes ago? Was he being facetious when asking where the power comes from?
I think he meant “Add that to the list of weird things about this island.”
IIRC, weren’t people able to hide from the smoke monster in previous episodes (or was that the polar bear)?
That might explain how TSM didn’t kill all the mercs in their camo. TSM couldn’t see them all.
I just happened to think of something… (Sorry if this was brought up last week.) They can only put three people plus the pilot on the chopper, right? So they would have had to make two trips to get all the mercs on the island? Given what we’ve seen about the flights to and from the island, you’d think they’d try to make as few trips as possible. Or maybe the pilot’s just getting better at navigating through the turbulence…
(It also makes it pretty obvious that they will need to make two trips to get the O6 off the island. They probably have to make a special trip just for Hurley! :D)
I think the ‘3 people’ rule was simply because of the gas shortage issue mentioned in that episode. More people = more weight = more gas, and the pilot mentioned burning a lot of fuel to get through the storm and barely having enough to get back. On a full tank, he’d be able to carry much more.
Was the “power station” really a power station? Weren’t they there to prevent the gas from being released? I (somehow) had the impression that it was really a chemical plant of some kind disguised as a power station.